Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pron] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no intention of getting himself into a stew about that . |
| 2 | Right form the start they get the club into the wrong position , meaning they have no hope of getting it into a good position afterwards . |
| 3 | There 's been talk on the council of turning it into a swimming pool , but they ca n't afford it . |
| 4 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |
| 5 | it 's not worth it because I 'm not gon na sort of get myself into a position where I 'm only likely , where in other words get a job as a bricklayer |
| 6 | ‘ The important thing is to avoid the danger of talking ourselves into a sense of almost terminal gloom . |
| 7 | We are in danger of talking ourselves into a deeper decline in which only the bad news is given attention . |
| 8 | In conversations snatched in the backs of taxis between meetings , and in office anterooms , Branson spoke about the process of turning himself into a public figure if the airline were to succeed , fully aware of the consequences . |
| 9 | He degrades the nobility of the place by turning it into a weekend retreat ; the human beings firmly under his sway — the Damsels , and the Artist — do not question his purpose , and he announces that his achievement will last for ever : |
| 10 | That June , Duran clamped Leonard 's artistry by drawing him into a slugging match in Montreal and inflicting on the American what was to be his only defeat in 37 contests . |
| 11 | ‘ He died cursing your father for trapping him into a loveless marriage , ’ he growled . |
| 12 | A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture . |
| 13 | Dressmakers who might prefer to sell a valuable piece of material rather than settle for the modest profit of making it into a dress . |
| 14 | A terrific heat eased from his room , welding with the air outside making it into a different zone from the rest of the house , like the Gulf Stream off Scotland . |
| 15 | Downstairs , inside the house , Kalchu was preparing the cockerel by plunging it into a pan of boiling water , then plucking out its feathers by the handful . |
| 16 | ‘ Rule 2 : Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods and the seller is bound to do something to the goods , for the purpose of putting them into a deliverable state , the property does not pass until the thing is done , and the buyer has notice that it has been done . ’ |
| 17 | We had a really tight budget and we feared the cost of turning it into a home was way beyond our means . |
| 18 | misfortune , and yet , and yet the cost of putting them into a bed and breakfast would stop those people 's houses going on the market and it would stop those people who are benefitting from it , from benefitting from it |
| 19 | ‘ The idea of stuffing everything into a pig 's stomach put me right off . ’ |
| 20 | The idea of making her into a museum was abandoned and instead she was turned into a Boys ' Club . |
| 21 | If a week of being looked after had gone such a fair way to turning me into a drivelling weakling , it was just as well I had n't let Dottie tempt me to any more of it . |
| 22 | Nothing really constructive got done there But it was where we first had a serious go at turning ourselves into a real band . |
| 23 | Employing the naively biographical paradigm of Gay Authorship , Brief Encounter shows Noel Coward displacing his own fears , anxieties and pessimism about the possibility of a fulfilled sexual relationship within an oppressively homophobic culture by transposing them into a heterosexual context . |
| 24 | Instead of using It ( a cleft structure ) , an identifying theme places an element in theme position by turning it into a nominalization using a wh-structure ( called a pseudo-cleft structure ) , as in What the book received in China was a great deal of publicity , or What was received by the book in China was a great deal of publicity . |
| 25 | A WHEELCHAIR-bound man beat his love rival to death after luring him into a field , a court heard yesterday . |
| 26 | It is up to social workers and the legal system to find ways of supporting rather than hindering parents and children in the difficult task of building themselves into a new family . |
| 27 | The purchase of basement premises in Altrincham ( previously used for the storage of bank records ) with a view to converting them into a restaurant to be called ‘ The Altrincham Cellar ’ . |